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Should LSU fans be worried about Brian Kelly’s lack of Louisiana recruits?

Should LSU fans be worried about Brian Kelly’s lack of Louisiana recruits?

Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde discuss Brian Kelly’s first offseason as head coach at LSU, and debate if fans should be concerned about the lack of Louisiana recruits he has brought in so far.

Video Transcript

DAN WETZEL: Big news, Brian Kelly likes Louisiana food, like everyone else on Earth.

PAT FORDE: Shocking.

DAN WETZEL: Crawfish, grilled oysters– although grilled oysters maybe not the most popular one. I will give him this on the Boston, Midwestern, Louisiana accent. I do not believe that’s why he said that family in tortured way.

PAT FORDE: Why did he?

DAN WETZEL: But when you switch places in the country, it’s very– it messes with you.

PAT FORDE: [LAUGHS]

DAN WETZEL: I had a disastrously strong Boston accent when I was a kid. And I moved to the Midwest. And I can’t pronounce anything. So the struggle is real. The struggle is real.

PAT FORDE: I think he was trying to put a little affectation on it. I’m not sure it was completely an involuntary (SOUTHERN ACCENT) family.

DAN WETZEL: No. He’s a– he was fraudulent on that. But it is confusing.

PAT FORDE: I’m sure.

DAN WETZEL: It’s confusing. I don’t know how bad his accent was as a kid. But he was on the North Shore. I don’t know. But he made it through his first thing. You know, the interesting thing– and he actually talked about this. He addressed the recruiting of LSU, which has been good.

He’s got a top-10 class. And he’s got plenty of chances to close that ranks, to move up. It’s not out of the question LSU doesn’t end up, at least around five or six or something like that in the rankings, which is not unbelievable, but good.

But they’re not killing it with Louisiana players the way they usually did. Obviously, Archie Manning was the biggest go. But I don’t think Arch was– I don’t care who you brought in as your coach. I don’t think Arch was going to LSU.

PAT FORDE: Right.

DAN WETZEL: I guess they could have found somebody. But Kelly has gone out and got really good players from Indianapolis, and Minneapolis, and Baltimore and done a– put a little twist of Long Beach, he went, like a little bit of the Notre Dame twist on the national thing. And I think he said, look, one of the things we talked about was, you know, maybe expanding out a little bit to get to picking– get some guys.

And so he’s got this national recruiting base. He’s recruited everywhere and then obviously worked the South. But that’s kind of where he’s at. I mean, there isn’t a whole lot…

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